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A History of the County of Essex
… Chemical Manure Co. (1855). The opening of the Victoria Dock (1855), though primarily of commercial importance, also … century three very large mills were built at Victoria Dock. These were the first in the port of London designed to … makers have included A. W. Robertson & Co., Victoria Dock Road, Canning Town ( c. 18781917), 176 and Towler & Son, …
A History of the County of Essex
… by the building, on the Thames, of the Royal Victoria Dock (18505) and the adjoining Royal Albert Dock (187580). The river Lea, as it enters the parish from … of the railway, work also started on the Victoria Dock, of which Bidder was the chief designer. The workers in …
A History of the County of Essex
… Metropolitan Building Act, 1844, 35 and the great Victoria Dock was nearing completion. In November 1853 Dacre convened … be an open ditch or 'cut' running alongside the Victoria Dock to the Thames at Gallions Reach. This had originally … to replace the old land drains destroyed in making the dock. The dock company, which had undertaken to provide the …
A History of the County of Essex
… was becoming established at Canning Town, in Victoria Dock Road and North Woolwich Road, which until 1886 were … 1904. About the same time some of those from Victoria Dock Road moved to the quieter Rathbone Street. 9 By 1911 the … grown in importance in the following years. The Victoria Dock Road market was closed in 1920. 10 In 1963, during the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Church of England Missions to Seamen institute, Victoria Dock Road, Custom House, was in existence by about 1900. 49 …
A History of the County of Essex
… also existed, at Stratford, West Ham's earliest proper dock, which appears to have been built a few years earlier. 69 It was then called Stratford Dock and later Meggs Dock. 70 It was about 80 yd. long and 50 yd. wide, lying …
A History of the County of Essex
… about 1957. 25 James McQuoin started work in the Victoria Dock area in 1856. The iron chapel of ST. MARGARET AND ALL … above the other. 131 The Victoria Docks church, Victoria Dock Road, was built in 1869 by James Duncan, the … (Lond.) in 1850. 259 A small church was built in Victoria Dock Road in 18601. 260 This was sold to the school board in …
A History of the County of Essex
… by the Eastern Counties railway in 1847. When the Victoria Dock was built, its entrance cut across the line, and a new line was therefore built round the north side of the dock to Silvertown, where it rejoined the original line. The old line south of the dock, locally known as the Silvertown tramway, was retained …
A History of the County of Essex
… 24 George P. Bidder (180678), designer of the Victoria Dock; 25 and Sir Henry Tate, Bt. (181989), sugar refiner at … expert on tropical diseases, worked at the Albert Dock seamen's hospital, Custom House. 42 Dorothea Beale (1831 … was Relf's, later the Royal Albert, music hall, Victoria Dock Road, Canning Town. 55 It was opened about 1875 by …
A Dictionary of London
… Lane, West Smithfield (q.v.).\ West Watergate See Puddle Dock. Westcheap See Cheapside. Westharden Street See West …